西南联大时期的许宝騄与戴世光

许宝騄、戴世光是我国近现代数理统计和社会经济统计领域的两面旗帜。他们二位在20世纪30年代分别留学英国和美国,获得统计学博士和硕士学位。抗日战争爆发后,分别在1940年、1938年回到昆明,任教西南联大。在极其困难的条件下,他们不仅在算学系、经济学系系统讲授数理统计和社会经济统计等课程,而且作出了有重大国际影响的研究成果。艰苦而乐观的生活趣事既反映了当时特殊的时代背景,更彰显出他们高尚的人格品德。

Hsu Pao-Lu and Tai Shih-Kuang in the National Southwest Associated University

Hsu Pao-Lu and Tai Shih-Kuang are two leaders in the field of modern mathematical statistics and social and economic statistics. They studied in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s, and earned doctorate and Master degrees in statistics. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War , they returned to Kunming in 1940 and 1938 to teach in the National Southwest Associated University. They not only established a rigorous curriculum in their teaching of mathematical statistics and socio-economic statistics in the department of mathematics and economics, but also achieved significant research breakthroughs that were recognized internationally. All of these were achieved in extremely difficult circumstances. This article documents a series of their anecdotes during this period of time, which reflect their virtues that are particularly admirable during that special time.